NPD Numbers.

With the month encompassing five weeks, the top ten cut off at over 200,000 units. In the Vgchartz preview, 25 titles were anticipated to have sold over 100,000 units in September and with the NPD data it is likely that at least another 10 games sold over 100,000 in September.




Hardware figures for the month were something of a mixed bag. All the consoles saw substantial increases in average weekly sales from August to September. PSP did not see a substantial change even though the PSP GO launched on October 1. DS appears to have been hurt by the price cuts on Wii, PS3 and X360.



The hardware ranking for September was:



1) DS - 524,200



2) PS3 - 491,800



3) Wii - 462,800



4) X360 - 352,600



5) PSP - 190,400



6) PS2 - 146,000



In August, which NPD counts as four weeks, the DS sold about 138,000 per week, the Wii sold about 69,000 per week, the X360 sold about 54,000 per week, the PS3 sold about 53,000 per week, the PSP sold about 35,000 per week and the PS2 sold about 26,000 per week.



Now compare that to September, which NPD counts as five weeks. DS sold about 105,000 per week, PS3 sold about 98,000 per week, Wii sold about 93,000 per week, X360 sold about 71,000 per week, PSP sold about 38,000 per week, and the PS2 sold about 29,000 per week.



Overall, weekly sales rates increased alot from August to September even though DS dropped by 33,000 per week.



Since the NPD September period ran from through October 3, we can infer two important points from the data:



1) With only seven days of a price drop in the September period, Wii average weekly sales increased by a third. Assuming Wii sold about 280,000 over the first four weeks of the period as it did in the four weeks August, the system may have seen something like a three fold increase in the price cut week. Unlike in Japan, this lift was purely from the price cut as Wii Fit Plus did not launch until October 4 - after the period ended.



2) PSP Go did provide some boost to the PSP. Using the August rate, PSP sales would have been 140,000 through four weeks of September. That would put the last week of PSP sales at 50,000 - a 42% increase over the previous weeks.



Year over year trends are starting to improve now as well.



September 2009 September 2008



Wii 463,000 687,000



PS3 492,000 232,000



X360 353,000 347,000



PS2 146,000 174,000



DS 524,000 537,000



PSP 190,000 238,000



On the other hand, for the month it looks like only DS and PS3 produced more revenue than in September 2008.



Through nine months of the year, the six systems have sold the following amounts in the United States. Lifetime USA figures to date from NPD are in parentheses.



DS - 5.72m (33.26m)



Wii - 4.02m (21.54m)



X360 - 2.39m (16.25m)



PS3 - 1.94m (8.73m)



PSP - 1.37m (15.70m)



PS2 - 1.15m (44.48m)

 
(numbers from NPD, from the Stats and Facts site of VGChartz.com)